Rediscovering Latinidad

On today's episode, we dive into Upon Entry, a tense and unforgettable film that captures a reality many immigrants know too well: the moment when crossing a border becomes an interrogation, and being “let in” depends on your ability to prove your worth, your innocence, or your humanity.
Upon Entry follows a Venezuelan-Spanish couple hoping to begin a new life in the United States, only to be pulled into a secondary inspection room where every detail of their lives, intentions, and identities is scrutinized. What unfolds is a psychological unravelling that echoes countless stories across the Latino diaspora: fear of authority, the weight of paperwork, the vulnerability of being at someone else’s mercy, and the trauma hidden in the simple act of arrival.

Check out Upon Entry here: https://tubitv.com/movies/100011434/upon-entry

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Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

Happy Thanksgiving listeners! On today's episode we interview We are Cousins creator Moises Garza and discuss his genealogical journey to building one of the biggest databases and family trees in the Southwest.

If you would like more inofrmation on Moises Garza's work please visit https://moisesgarza.com/

Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

Last week was our Bye week! Enjoy relistening to last season's fan favorite: The Fall of 23andme!

Please join us and our panelists Teresa Vega and Ellen Fernandez-Sacco as we breakdown the history of 23andme, what has happened with the business decline, data breaches, and how users should handle their data and account going forward.

• If you would like to learn more about Ellen's work, please visit the following: https://latinogenealogyandbeyond.com
• If you would like to learn more about Teresa's work, please visit: https://radiantrootsboricuabranches.com

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going:
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

Follow our social media:

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

We're back and the bots have questions for us! Let's use AI/ChatGPT to learn more about each other's family histories. You don't want to miss this episode, we have some shocking moments from ancestors past.


Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

On today's episode we go full cringe and discuss kissing cousins with our panelist Ellen Fernandez-Sacco. Have you encountered relatives who married their own family? Have some branches that overlap? You're not alone. Join us for an interesting discussion!

• If you would like to learn more about Ellen's work, please visit the following: https://latinogenealogyandbeyond.com
  
  
• Follow us on social media: 
  
  • Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
  • Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
  • Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
  • X: @RediscLatinidad
  • Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad
  
  Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
  http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
  https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com
  
  Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
  National:
  ● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
  ● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
  ● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/
  
  CA:
  ● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
  ● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
  ● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
  ● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces
  
  DC:
  ● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC
  
  TN:
  ● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
  ● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
  ● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/
  
  WI:
  ● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI
  
  Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 
  
  Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.
  
  If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.
  

This week, we're looking at the fascinating lives of medieval queens and princesses, royal genealogy, and Queenship Studies! We talk with two historians: Dr. Ellie Woodacre, Reader of Renaissance History at the University of Winchester and host of the "Royal Studies Podcast," and Susan Abernethy, creator of "The Freelance History Writer" blog. We also hear how co-hosts Briar and Edward found distant links to Iberian royals, disprove the notion of "blue blood," and learn why, if you have medieval European ancestors, it's likely some of them were royal.

RESOURCES: 
Dr. Ellie Woodacre: 
The Royal Studies Podcast - https://royalstudies.buzzsprout.com
The Royal Studies Network - https://www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/
https://www.instagram.com/royalstudiesscholar/
https://twitter.com/monarchyconf

Susan Abernethy: 
Freelance History Writer - https://thefreelancehistorywriter.com/


“Is Everyone a Descendant of Royalty?” Watch this video by Matt Baker (@usefulcharts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15Uce4fG4R0

There were a lot of historical people mentioned in this episode! Learn more about them all on Edward's blog: https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com/2025/10/rediscovering-latinidad-reginalidad.html

Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

This week, we’re flipping the mic and hearing from the non-Latino relatives who became part of our Latino families. Co-host Edward’s mom,and co-host Briar Rose's mother-in-law, and two uncles join us for a heartfelt conversation about how Latinidad has shaped their homes, holidays, parenting, and sense of belonging. From learning Spanish and cooking family recipes to understanding cultural pride and intergenerational connection, this episode celebrates the beauty of love that crosses cultures — and the ways our families grow because of it.

Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

On today’s episode—just two days before the anniversary of the United States’ acquisition of Puerto Rico from Spain—we’re joined by author Javier A. Hernández, whose book Prexit: Forging Puerto Rico’s Path to Sovereignty reimagines what a fully independent Puerto Rico could look like.

We explore how sovereignty could unlock new opportunities for Puerto Rico—politically, economically, and culturally—and how self-determination might strengthen not just the island’s future, but the entire Caribbean region. Javier shares how history informs this vision, and why understanding Puerto Rico’s past is essential to shaping a thriving, self-sustaining future.

For anyone passionate about Puerto Rican heritage, identity, and the possibilities that lie ahead, this conversation offers an inspiring look at what Puerto Rico could become when it defines its own path forward.


Follow Javier on X @PRexitBook

Check out PREXIT here: https://www.amazon.com/PREXIT-Forging-Puerto-Ricos-Sovereignty/dp/1676722181





Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

Two years after the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, grief, outrage, and displacement continue to ripple across the world and across identities. In this episode, we look at how Latino histories of colonization, diaspora, and resistance shape our understanding of this conflict and how Jewish Latinos, in particular, often find themselves torn between cultural memory and political conviction.
This conversation brings together two voices with deeply personal ties to these layered histories:

• Joaquín, the late cousin of our co-host Briar Rose, grew up between El Salvador and the United States, shaped by the shadow of civil war, U.S. intervention, and migration. His reflections, recorded before his passing, speak to the inherited trauma and empathy of those who’ve lived through displacement and violence, and how that informs solidarity with Palestinians.
• David, cousin of cohost Edward, is Colombian Jewish and lived in Israel, where he witnessed the fear, mourning, and polarization that followed October 7. His perspective wrestles with faith, identity, and the pain of watching a homeland, both ancient and modern, consumed by cycles of vengeance and survival.

Together, their dialogue explores what it means to hold multiple truths:

• How Latinos see echoes of their own histories in Israel and Palestine
• The tension between justice and safety, faith and politics, colonization and survival
• How Jewish and non-Jewish Latinos navigate belonging in global conversations about oppression

The episode is both a tribute and a reckoning, a space to honor Joaquín’s memory, to listen to David’s lived experience, and to ask how the past two years have reshaped what it means to stand for humanity, even when history keeps dividing us.

For more on the genetic history of Jews, Palestinians, and the ancient Levant, read "More than kin, less than kind: Jews and Palestinians as Canaanite cousins" by Razib Khan:
https://www.razibkhan.com/p/more-than-kin-less-than-kind-jews

Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

Rediscovering Latinidad is an independent podcast. This show is hosted by Briar Rose, Fausto, Edward, y Jellissa and is engineered by Matthew Sambolin. Cover art designed by George Colon. 

Visit our website at www.RediscoveringLatinidad.com. If you would like to reach out, please email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 646-470-9824.

If you would like to become a member of our Patreon, please join at https://patreon.com/RediscoveringLatinidad.

In this heartfelt episode, we dive into the world of no sabo kids—a term often used to describe Latinos who didn’t grow up fluent in Spanish. Together, we explore what it really means beyond the stereotype.
Two of our co-hosts share their own journeys as no sabo kids, reflecting on how their experiences with language and identity shape the way they move through their identity. We’re also joined by two friends who claim the no sabo identity, offering their perspective on culture, connection, and pride in heritage.
To round out the conversation, we talk with social media personality Maya Murillo, who has sparked national conversations with her humor and honesty about growing up no sabo.
This episode isn’t just about language—it’s about belonging, healing generational gaps, and celebrating the many ways Latinidad shows up across families. Whether you grew up speaking Spanish, English, Spanglish, or somewhere in between, this conversation will leave you feeling seen and connected.
Highlights include:

• The history and meaning of the term no sabo kid
• Personal stories from a co-host raising the next generation
• How shame and pride show up in conversations about language
• The role of social media in reframing no sabo identity
• A powerful reminder that Latinidad is not defined by fluency alone

Check out Maya on social media! Check out The Super Secret Bestie Club with Curly! September 30th in Los Angeles, you can catch Maya in her show "Maya in the Moments!"  Follow her on Instagram @Mayainthemoment

Timecodes
1:03 Intro with Briar, Edward, and Jellissa
37:45 Alexis Feldman46:35 Maya Murillo
1:31:02 Jenn Piñeiro
1:47:35 Outro with Briar, Edward, and Jellissa

Follow us on social media: 

• Facebook: Rediscovering Latinidad
• Instagram: @RediscoveringLatinidad
• Bluesky: @RediscLatinidad 
• X: @RediscLatinidad
• Reddit: r/RediscoveringLatindad

Please visit Edward's blogs! Let's keep this family research going: 
http://ruedafingerhut.blogspot.com
https://geneticfunhouse.blogspot.com

Know Your Rights Trainings and Legal Service Agencies
National:
● Trainings for immigrant educators, students and parents – https://www.immschools.org/
● Free or low-cost immigration legal services -- https://www.immigrationlawhelp.org/
● For Dreamers - Legal Services - Cornell Law School –https://sites.lawschool.cornell.edu/path2papers/about/

CA:
● CA Immigration Legal Service Agencies (Bay Area) –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?zip=95126&x=0&y=0
● Legal services for immigrants - https://www.pangealegal.org/
● Trainings and Resources - Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) - https://www.ilrc.org/
● California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) Resources – https://info.ccsa.org/safe-spaces

DC:
● DC Immigration Legal Service Agencies –https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=DC

TN:
● TN Immigration Legal Service Agencies – https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=TN        
● NICE - National International Center for Empowerment – https://www.empowernashville.org/
● TNJFON - Tennessee Justice for Our Neighbors -- https://www.tnjfon.org/

WI:
● Milwaukee Immigration Legal Service Agencies -https://www.immigrationadvocates.org/legaldirectory/search?state=WI

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